3rd:VPcURL

The VPcURL package provides Visual Prolog bindings to the cURL library, which is a library for HTTP and FTP.

Provided by Jan de Lint.

Features

• VPcURL functions which are reasonable close to the Curl manual.
• VP multithreading replacing curl_multi
• HTTP and FTP
• zlib compression library (some functions), see the Zlib specs
• expat xml parser bindings with usage example --Lintde 18:13, 29 January 2008 (CET)
• libxml2 html parser bindings with usage example -- Lintde 16:26, 13 February 2008 (CET)

Separate classes with runnable annotated samples include

• a complex connection with POST, file-upload, POST- and GET-vars, file download all in one go.
• a simple case opening a page (.HTML) on the internet which does not exist
• a simple case downloading an image file from the internet and saving it on disk.
• an FTP upload testcase (please provide your own FTP adres, userid and password).
• an FTP download case
• a 3 step header/redirect example
• a debug mode example
• expat usage example
• libxml2 usage example

I assume you need VP 7103 CE for the background cases to run properly. If you don't need the background, strip new/2 and associated stuff and recompile. Progress indicator is supported but not implemented.

Please edit testcases.pro, testcase 5 and 6 (numbers 4 and 5), to provide your own FTP parameters. The other testcases are HTTP and can be run out of the box, provided the servers are not down. F5 will randomly pick a background testcase and run it. Once all the testcases do run, you could do some stress-testing by constantly hitting the F5 key.

Here are recommendations: how to incorporate VPcURL in your program

Changes

• 13-2-2008
  • Starting this version the required open source dll's will have to be downloaded separately from the appropriate websites.
  • Added libxml2 html parser bindings
  • Small change to the VPcURL package: resetInputStream, resetHeaderstream and resetDebugstream have been made more safe.
• 29-1-2008
  • include expat xml parser bindings
• 9-1-2008
  • include zlib package in the installation
  • include libcurl.dll and zlib1.dll in the installation
• 26-12-2007
  • generic support for reuse of connections/performs
  • header info + additional redirect testcase/sample
  • debug info + debug example (primarily to debug protocol problems)
  • libcurl and zlib version info
• 11-12-2007 Added good old zlib compression library class and enhanced testcase 1
• 4-12-2007 Initial version

Download

Download from Discussion forum: VPcURL package